Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months of preparation were over. Gerald W. Blakeley Jr. of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had underwritten the Boston tour with a fat $25,000 check. The Sing-Out Kids had finished their tour of the Caribbean and their assault on New York and Yale. Heikki Lampela had secured the sponsorship and the theatre. The Belmont housewives and the high school kids and the old men and women and the Harvard and Radcliffe students had run the gauntlet of picketers carrying signs reading "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "Sing Away Your Sickness with a Right-Wing Melody." They were...
...Stephens '68, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republicans, introduced them: "And here they are--Up With People!"--and 130 freshly scrubbed brown and white and yellow Sing-Out Kids burst onto the Sanders Theatre stage singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Their blue eyes gleamed and smiles wrapped all the way around their faces. Their hair was short and they wore yellow and tan and blue blazers or pastel jumpers with white blouses. And they were loud, singing there on the risers below a huge Up With People! Sign...
...results? "The Kids felt they were really battling out there. It was really an interesting experience," Sayre said. He claimed a week later that "over two dozen" Cliffies and Harvard students had asked for applications to join Sing-Out. Sayre wants to get 1000 applicants from the Boston area, "and this summer thousands of us will sweep across the country," he says with a magnificent sweeping gesture. Money was also a result of the visit. It is not certain whether he got any at Harvard, but after a Sing-Out the week before in Hancock Hall in Boston, Sayre...
Schick and another of Frawley's companies, Technicolor, Inc., often take two or three full-page ads in MRA publications such as the magazine Pace and various explanatory paperbacks. There is even a tie-in deal with Schick razors if you buy the Sing-Out record...
Enter the Fugs, Greenwich Village folk-rock preacher-lovers who have sprung full grown and screaming from Allen Ginsberg's beard. Champions of moral disarmament, they sing out for the people who, according to Ginsberg's liner notes on their second album, "make love with their eyes open, maybe smoke pot & maybe take LSD & look inside their heads to find the Self-God Walt Whitman prophesied for America...